https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169372 Credible partisan testimony may support a conviction where the witnesses' accounts are substantially consistent and carefully tested for reliability. Liability under section 149 of the Indian Penal Code turns on membership of an unlawful assembly formed with a common object, and does not require proof of a specific overt act by each accused. In murder cases committed in prosecution of that common object, the death penalty is not limited to the actual shooter. The sentence may nevertheless be adjusted on individual circumstances, and the Court noted the youth of three accused as a basis for commuting their death sentences to life imprisonment. en-us Mon, 04 May 1964 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:13:42 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169372 Credible partisan testimony may support a conviction where the witnesses' accounts are substantially consistent and carefully tested for reliability. Liability under section 149 of the Indian Penal Code turns on membership of an unlawful assembly formed with a common object, and does not require proof of a specific overt act by each accused. In murder cases committed in prosecution of that common object, the death penalty is not limited to the actual shooter. The sentence may nevertheless be adjusted on individual circumstances, and the Court noted the youth of three accused as a basis for commuting their death sentences to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 May 1964 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169372